About this blog //À propos de ce blog

This blog has been set up by friends of the hungerstrikers in Calais who they have asked to support their action. We are giving access to administer this blog to the hungerstrikers, but due to the challenges of accessing internet in the Jungle, and their physical exhaustion, they are not yet actively administering it themselves.

The hungerstrikers have started this courageous action under the extremely challenging circumstances of having just lost their living places, along with hundreds of others, in the Calais Jungle, in the hope that doing so will influence those with power and responsibility to address the problems that are faced by all refugees there with urgency.

There are many different people, on the ground, and remotely, trying to do what they are able to support them, and this blog is just one way of doing that. This blog is set up with the idea to

publish anything authored by the hungerstrikers for circulation as rapidly as possible, in english and translations

provide updates on their action

link to other coverage, and comment on its’ accuracy in reporting the situation

provide a point of contact for media: any press releases will be hosted here

provide a point of contact for those wishing to support

The purpose of this blog will update and change in discussion with the hungerstrikers. Please, support us and bear with us while we do our best to support the hungerstrikers across barriers of language, limited electricity & phone signal & telephone credit, extremely limited internet access. One barrier has been the building they are currently staying in being surrounded by a police cordon while houses around it were destroyed today (Tuesday 8 March).

A Facebook group and page have been set up by supporters acting independently of the hunger strikers but in some communication with people supporting them on the ground: